[the_old_crowd] Re: OT: introductions and music-Dylan and Green Day

[Randy Estes]

Agreed on U2 CD.

Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatorze(sp?)
HELLO HELLO

I'm at a place called Vertigo!

It's everything I wish I didn't know!

But you give me something I can Feel !!!!

Boy my work sure seems like Vertigo these days!


--- ameliagoldfeesh <ameliagoldfeesh at ...> wrote:

> 
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com,
> SongBird3411 at a... wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > Finally managed to upgrade most of my Beatles
> collection to CD, so 
> I  have been enjoying that.  
> > U2- "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"
> > Green Day- "American Idiot"
> <SNIP>
> 
> Jen Reese wrote:
> <SNIP>
> ***Current/recent listening:
> Recently bought a bunch of college favorites that I
> never converted 
> from cassette tape: Dire Straits, Bob Dylan, U2,
> Meat Loaf.
> <SNIP>
> 
> A Goldfeesh:
> You ladies are after my own heart. Just two days ago
> it was brought 
> forcibly to my attention that I both need to update
> and burn some 
> CDs.   I went to listen to Dylan's Planet Waves
> (Forever Young and 
> You Angel You) and Nashville Skyline (Lay Lady Lay)
> and found that 
> not only do I not have them on CD, that I don't even
> have them taped 
> off anymore.  On top of that I found my 1970s,
> awesome portable 
> record player needs a bit of speaker repair!  I get
> a fiancee and 
> neglect my record player and collection- who knew?
> :)
> 
> For anyone who loves, or at least, knows Dylan and
> needs a new book 
> to read, I can recommend two.  The first goes
> without saying, 
> Chronicles Vol. 1, his autobiography. He is so Bob
> in it, he talks 
> of his life yet is so so very elusive at the same
> time.  From this 
> first book you wouldn't know he was married twice,
> the names of his 
> parents or even the names of his wives, while at the
> same time he 
> tells a lot of his story that you didn't know.  At
> one point he 
> gives the name Becky Thatcher as a childhood friend-
> I said "wow, he 
> named a name!" until I realized it was Becky
> Thatcher to his Tom 
> Sawyer. *L*
> 
> The second book, the reason I was looking for my
> CDs, is by 
> Christopher Ricks, "Dylan's Visions of Sin." Ricks,
> a humanities 
> prof and Dylan fan focuses fourteen or so songs
> reflect the 7 Deadly 
> Sins and the 7 Heavenly Virtues.  In additon, he
> brings in Keats, 
> William Blake and other poet comparisons.  This book
> made me 
> remember why I love Bob so much. He points out
> things on word usage 
> and rhymes that I would never dream of and made me
> reappreciate 
> songs that I'd became over-familiar with.
> 
> This book also makes mention of A.S.Byatt, reviled
> of Potter fans, 
> who says (with equal lack of vision) paraphased
> that-- she could 
> find layers and layers in Keats yet couldn't go
> through a Dylan 
> lyric because she wouldn't know where to begin. 
> Well that just 
> reinforces my opinion of self-important has-beens.
> 
> To change the subject a bit- Green Day!  I recall
> them in high 
> school on the radio but I was too much into the
> Beatles and Dylan.  
> I would have never guessed that in ten years they
> would come out 
> with such a masterpiece as American Idiot.  They are
> so right on 
> when it comes to media and politics and politicians
> and the average 
> person. I never would have dreamed they had it in
> them.  There is so 
> much I'd like to say about the media and politics
> and the media 
> eating out of the hands of the politicians and
> lobbyists and the 
> powerlessness of the average person but- I'd better
> not.
> 
> A (wordy) Goldfeesh- 
> 
> Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
> From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol  
> 
> or 
> 
> Don't wanna be an American idiot.
> One nation controlled by the media.
> Information nation of hysteria.
> It's going out to idiot America.
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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